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It varies greatly from game to game. For example, Super Mario Galaxy combines an orchestral recording with digital instruments and effects, which adds up to a few dozen instruments in total. On the other hand, lots of games achieve a retro feel by using only a handful of synthesized tracks (possibly changing the parameters of those tracks over time, which ...
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In addition to ecline6's answer: In very dry places (large appartment houses typically), you can place couple glasses of water into the piano to keep the humidity at a bit higher level. You obviously have to add water to the glasses from time to time, it usually lasts about a month.
There are 3 reasons:
Wood in general doesn't like too dry places.
During ...
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Due to my knowledge sound clips for ganes are completely mixed sound files, so there is no restriction whatsoever, one simply records the wanted instruments. A reasonable subset of instruments might be the MIDI GS instrument set, but this would only ease representation of music in significantly smaller MIDI files (e. g. for phone ringtones) and provide no ...
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Looks like it could be Kramer guitars owned by Gibson.
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You can get a climate-control system installed in the piano. Dampp-Chaser is one brand. It has both a water system to increase humidity and a header to decrease humidity, and works automatically to increase or decrease as necessary. In addition to helping the instrument stay in tune, it will help prevent sticking keys. The cost is several hundred ...
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All pianos benefit from being in very stable environments, not too dry, not humid, and a static temperature. This will help to keep it in tune for longer. Realize though that playing the instrument will knock it out of tune and the more you play the faster it will happen. Also, if the pin block is shot, it will go out of tune fast no matter what you do, ...
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Here is my feeble attempt at combining the individual instruments Register tone quality into one chart.
Note: Samuel Adler's Orchestration book did not have any of this for the Strings but that is not what I was looking for so I am satisfied. Also, I had a hard time getting everything in the image, so some instruments are placed rather randomly...
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Normally questions concerning material solicitation are shut down, but I think in this case, since it applies to orchestration, which is musical practice related to composition pedagogy, it is pertinent to this forum.
First, there are two great texts concerning orchestration: Alfred Blatter's "Orchestration" and Samuel Adler's "The Study of Orchestration." ...
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